"To the long list of abuse meted out to
suspected homosexuals in Africa, Senegal has added a new form of
degradation — the desecration of their bodies. In the past two years, at
least four men suspected of being gay have been exhumed by angry mobs
in cemeteries in Senegal. The violence is especially shocking because
Senegal, unlike other countries in the region, is considered a model of
tolerance. 'It's
jarring to see this happen in Senegal,' says Ryan Thoreson, a fellow at
the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission who has been
researching the rise of homophobia here. 'When something like this
happens in an established democracy, it's alarming.' Even though homosexuality
is illegal in Senegal, colonial documents indicate the country has long
had a clandestine gay community. In many towns, they were tacitly
accepted, says Cheikh Ibrahima Niang, a professor of social anthropology
at Senegal's largest university. In fact, the visibility of gays in
Senegal may have helped to prompt the backlash against them."

To add insult to injury, the exhumation and desecration of Madieye Diallo was videotaped via mobile phones and posted online.

"The shaky image shows a group of men jerking around the edges of the
grave. One of them straddles the pit and shovels away the fine gray dirt
until you can see the shrouded body. It's still inside the trough when
they tie a rope around its feet.
They yank it out, cheering as the body bends over the lip of the grave.
The shroud catches on the ground and tears off, revealing the dead man's
torso.
Rassul Djitte, 48, watched from behind the wall of a nearby school. He
had not known Diallo personally, but says he felt a stab. ''People were
rejoicing,' he says. 'They dragged him past me and his body left tracks
in the sand. Like a car passing through snow.'"

Diallo's body was exhumed and desecrated the same week Senegalese media and Muslim leaders urged citizens to
attack gays. One local youth leader told Dakar's L'Observeur: "The homosexuals will not escape lynching. They will be fish food."

These people are sick, twisted, and VILE. I might be wrong for stating this but I don't care but I hope those kinds of people are slaughtered by nature's fury. This kind of sh!t really pisses me off as a gay black person.